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08/24/2012

Awe Enhances Well-Being

One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.
E. M. Forster

Once again World Forum team member Kirsten Haugen has found something unique to ponder.  So check this out and think about whether it has any application for your program.

A paper published by researchers at the Stanford University and the University of Minnesota, "Awe Expands People’s Perception of Time, Alters Decision Making, and Enhances Well-Being," concludes...

"When do people feel as if they are rich in time?  Not often, research and daily experience suggest.  However, three experiments showed that participants who felt awe, relative to other emotions, felt they had more time available and were less impatient.

"Participants who experienced awe were also more willing to volunteer their time to help others, more strongly preferred experiences over material products, and experienced a greater boost in life satisfaction....  These changes in decision making and well being were due to awe’s ability to alter the subjective experience of time.  Experiences of awe bring people into the present moment, which underlies awe’s capacity to adjust time perception, influence decisions, and make life feel more satisfying than it would otherwise."



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